• Semester 2 (External)

Synopsis

This   unit  explores  a  number  of  major  social  trends  and   the
consequences  of  these for education. It also provides  opportunities
for  students to engage a number of current emphases within  education
which are seen as responses to the changing nature of community in the
late 20th century. Basic features of postmodernism and postcolonialism
are  introduced and used as analytical windows through which education
as  a  social  agency  is investigated. Students  will  also  come  to
understand  something  of the basic ideas of a number  of  influential
writers  in  this  field such as Henry Giroux,  Peter  McLaren,  Paulo
Freire, Christine Sleeter and Nancy Fraser.